ARCHIVED - Telecom Commission Letter Addressed to Various Parties Interested in the Review of wholesale services and associated policies, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-551 – Requests for Information

Ottawa, 24 November 2014

Our reference:  8663-C12-201313601

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RE: Review of wholesale services and associated policies, Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-551 – Requests for Information

Dear Madams/Sirs:

Attached to this letter are requests for information issued by the Commission in the context of the proceeding initiated by Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-551, as amended.^{Footnote 1}

Responses to these requests for information are to be filed with the Commission, and served on all parties to this proceeding, by 12 December 2014. Parties are to group their responses into a single document in order to facilitate accessibility and administrative processing.

As set out in section 39 of the Telecommunications Act and in Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC 2010-961, Procedures for filing confidential information and requesting its disclosure in Commission proceedings, persons may designate certain information as confidential. A person designating information as confidential must provide a detailed explanation on why the designated information is confidential and why its disclosure would not be in the public interest, including why the specific direct harm that would be likely to result from the disclosure would outweigh the public interest in disclosure.  Furthermore, a person designating information as confidential must either file an abridged version of the document omitting only the information designated as confidential or provide reasons why an abridged version cannot be filed.

Sincerely,

Original signed by

Lyne Renaud
Director, Competitor Services and Costing
Telecommunications Sector

c.c.:  Philippe Kent, CRTC, 819 953-4057, philippe.kent@crtc.gc.ca

james.e.dingwell@yahoo.com ; nels2510@telus.net ; robin.winsor@cybera.ca ; steve@openmedia.ca ; reza.rajabiun@ryerson.ca ; darrellkrahn@shaw.ca ; chall2k5@gmail.com ; heather.b.gold@ftthcouncil.org ; ron.murch@haskayne.ucalgary.ca ; regulatory@fibernetics.ca ; jeff_mcnamee@sympatico.ca ; harry.sharma@canarie.ca ; cedwards@ccsa.cable.ca ; regulatory@ssimicro.coa ; regulatory.matters@corp.eastlink.ca ; rs@summer.com ; corinne.pohlmann@cfib.ca ; john.pecman@cb-bc.gc.ca ; jpanter@auroracollege.nt.ca ;  radams@coquitlam.ca ; slambert-racine@uniondesconsommateurs.ca ; george.burger@vmedia.ca ;  rob.olenick@tbaytel.com ; jfleger@piac.ca ;; jonathan.holmes@itpa.ca ; benjamin.sanders@gov.yk.ca; MaryAnne.Bendfeld@calgary.ca ; blackwell@giganomics.ca ; jfmezei@vaxination.ca ; Derek.Leschinsky@bc-cb.gc.ca ; Monique.Moreau@cfib.ca ;

Attach.
Distribution List

ILECs
Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership and Télébec, Limited Partnership regulatory@bell.aliant.ca
Bell Canada bell.regulatory@bell.ca
MTS Allstreamiworkstation@mtsallstream.com
Saskatchewan Telecommunications document.control@sasktel.com
TELUS Communications Company regulatory.affairs@telus.com

Cablecos
Cogeco Cable Inc michel.messier@cogeco.com.
Québecor Média inc. dennis.beland@quebecor.com
Rogers Communications david.watt@rci.rogers.com
Shaw Cablesystems G.P. regulatory@sjrb.ca

Competitors
Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. ctacit@tacitlaw.com
Distributel Communications Limited regulatory@distributel.ca
Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. regulatory@primustel.ca
British Columbia Broadband Association regulatory@bcba.ca

Attachment

Preliminary undertakings

To ILECs

1.  One of the benefits of FTTP is the higher service speeds that can be attained. Your company is offering lower service speeds on FTTP that are also supported on other technologies. Of the subscribers served by FTTP what proportion of your subscribers are subscribing to the higher speeds achievable only on FTTP rather than the speeds currently available on DSL-based technology?
2. ILECs have submitted that there would be significant costs to implement BAS.  Provide the start up costs for implementing BAS by central office.  Identify all central office configurations and provide the start up costs by configuration.
3. Provide the names of your ULL customers, as well as the respective quantity of ULLs provisioned as of year-end for each of the years 2009 to 2013. In addition, for each ULL customer, identify the total number of ULLs provisioned by rate band for each of the years 2009 to 2013.
4. What retail services are supported by wholesale Ethernet access and transport services, and/or by wholesale high-speed CDN access and transport services?
   1. For each of the years 2008 – 2013 provide the revenues generated by each of these retail services.
   2. Provide your views as to whether the services identified above form part of the same retail product market, or if not, identify the separate product markets.
5. For each of the respective CDN and Ethernet transport services offered by your company, provide the following:
   1. A list of competitors subscribed to the service in 2013
   2. Total revenue received from each competitor
   3. The monthly rate each competitor paid
6. For each of the years 2008-2013 provide the total number of facilities your company uses out-of-territory and the percentage of those facilities that are self-supplied.

Cablecos

1. If you provided access to competitors at the same head ends that were used for the previous disaggregated TPIA service, indicate whether such a service would include a transport component. If yes, quantify the level of transport cost as a proportion of your CBB costs.
2. Cablecos have submitted that there would be significant costs to implement BAS, and have provided initial estimates.  Provide the start up costs for implementing BAS by head end.  Identify all head end configurations and provide the start up costs by configuration.
3. Provide the number of ULLs, as of year-end 2013, that were used to provision: (i) telephony services; (ii) Internet services (not including dial-up); and (iii) both telephony and Internet services (not including dial-up).
4. What retail services are supported by wholesale Ethernet access and transport services, and/or by wholesale high-speed CDN access and transport services?
   1. For each of the years 2008 – 2013 provide the revenues generated by each of these retail services.
   2. Provide your views as to whether the services identified above form part of the same retail product market, or if not, identify the separate product markets.
5. For each of the respective CDN and Ethernet transport services offered by your company, provide the following:
   1. A list of competitors subscribed to the service in 2013
   2. Total revenue received from each competitor
   3. The monthly rate each competitor paid
6. For each of the years 2008-2013 provide the total number of facilities your company uses out-of-territory and the percentage of those facilities that are self-supplied.

To Competitors

1. If FTTP access was mandated as a result of this proceeding, what proportion of your company’s (or membership companies’) end-user demand in areas where FTTP is available would you expect to be for the higher speeds that FTTP could provide?
2. If BAS is implemented in 2015, provide forecasts of your company’s (or membership companies’) demand by year for both ILEC and Cableco BAS for 2015 – 2019. At the same time provide forecasts of demand by year for both ILEC and Cableco aggregated wholesale HSA services for 2014 – 2019.
3. Provide the number of ULLs, as of year-end 2013 for your company (or membership companies) that were used to provision: (i) telephony services; (ii) Internet services (not including dial-up); and (iii) both telephony and Internet services (not including dial-up).

Date modified:

2014-11-24